An MBA is essentially at the fingertips of anyone that wants, really, 10 times the education of a two-year degree or graduate degree by starting your own business.

Socrates said, 'You should get married because either you get married and you're happy and you have a happy life... or you get married and, if your wife makes you unhappy, you'll become a philosopher.'

The biggest mistake that I think founders make is that, right off the bat, one of the most critical things to get wrong is when you think that it is all about the pitch and the meeting with the investor. That is 10% of the equation.

The concept of the MVP, the minimum viable product, is: What is the minimum version of your grand, ambitious, massively world-changing idea? ... If you back away from how different the world is going to be in 10, 20, 30 years and you work backwards from that, what is the minimum viable version of that that you could launch today?

Facebook is, it's almost 20-years-old ... I personally think there's going to be an explosion of consumer demand for alternatives to things like Facebook and Twitter. I think it's been building for a while.

Facebook, today, has more engineers working on advertising products than it has engineers working on improving the UI, the user interface of the product, for you and I.

As consumers, which all of us are, we are constantly consuming typically the Nike of today, and the Facebook of today, the Instagram of today, the Starbucks of today. And we forget that all of these stories started with a very, very basic minimum version.

At the end of the day, investors want to invest in people that they would want to work for.

Perhaps the most important lesson in fundraising and the biggest mistake that I have made and I see founders make all the time is focusing too much on the results instead of the process.

When are we most prone to self-sabotage? It's when we are in fear.

90% of the work of getting a 'yes' from an investor comes way before the first interaction with said investor.

As someone really smart told me.... either you manage the board or the board manages you.